The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-07-16

school is the poor mans Seminary, Che poor
man's College, the poor mans childrens Bazaar,
which the rich of our country magnanimously
help to support,-the Nursery Of the Nation to
make good citizens. This Is why the sensible
and patriotic rich unmuimuripgly support it.
But enough-out u justice to the dead-our
friends-our honorable citizens-we deemed 1t |
our duty to give this information; not SO much
on our own accHunt-wbo are alive, we can de-
fend ourselves, but on account OF the dead who
cannot defend themselves from the nshluatons
oI the defamers OF the dead
Strangers also might think that the above
named had dofraudcd the public THIS WAS an
other motive for writing these few lines for the
purpose OF removing any wrong impressions.
zone OF them"
NATHANIEL b. REBER, NJ. d.
Whom we wrote and published in last weeks CAR
non ADVOCATE the assertion that "a little more
than twelve years ago public school house was
erected-S45OOO was reclilessy squaudered, &C."
there was no intention on our part of impunging
the character OF the living or defamng The
memory of those who have 'goae 70 meet their
fathers" We lave always been of the opinion
that the school board Of lSz2-7S ERRED when
they sllowed the contractor and bmlder OF the
scheol hcnse 10 alter the plans and specifications
of the architect which so greatly inci cased the
cost of the building II we are not greatly mis-
taken the first cost was to be somewhere In the
nelghborhood of slS,poO TO $4,000 this cost was
UNFORTUNATELY iiicreased u s45,OOO by the
reason above stared-the members of the school
board were the only parties who could have pre-
vented the said "unwise and unpleasant action"
hey failed 10 do so, and in default of which To-
l.sarf 1T,
with school debt Of $4,000 or what the first
cost of the school building was to have been-but
the end is not yet, three years more and new
school building viii have TO be erected, II will be
then that the unwise and unpleasant action OF
me school board Of 1913 will become more
iorcibly apparent to every lax payer. no matter
how much fhey may have condoned Che ac,ion
OF said school hoard in the past 1t is exceed
ingly poor logic for AN intelligent gentleman to
claim that because the members of the schoo!
board where all property holders and heavy tak
payers that the poor, who earn their bread b.
the sweat Of their brow, should be hardened fyr
years with Il debt which common sense must
most certainly disapprcye of.
The writer of The above Communication is
right, there was great opposition against the
erection Of school building even at a cost of
$4,000 and the CARBON ADVOCATE did all in its
power, by fair and honest reasoning, 10 convince
! the taxpayers that it was for the good OF the
| town and the rising generation that substantial
school building should be erected, but 1t DID NOT
favor thecrcctlon Of bulldog such as the school
directors of 1918 allowed to be erected at cost
| of about Sl5,OO0, lnd which is burden upon the
taX-payers of this borough. We admit, wc did
not take into consideration the property owners
| and heavy Taxpayers OF which the school hoard
was composed when we said that the "tax-payers
were disgustcd to Il man" By erection of a Si5 600
building, and the only reason 10 be ascrlbed to
their reelection and ylgdlclion for the reckless
disregard OF the interests of the taxpayers and
tine future welfare of our borough is the pecul-
arity which has characterized many of the
elections held in this town during former years
and to which 1t is unnecessary for us to further
recur.
| The writer Of the above communication claims
| that the CARBON ADVOCATE sis an ayowed
enemy of our Free School System, and takes no
Interest in our schools, and upon the slightest
occasion vents his spleen in language similar TO
the quotation" The author of the preceding
sentence has beena subscriber to the CARBON
ADVOCATE since the first number vas iss1ed on
! November %, 1879; he Is recognized as an in
telligent, conscientious and christian gentleman,
~. nc Ni.o"ilsiy wi'luy anu iiiihclously ms
Typ eSen's .i'e eu,l9r Vi 'ie oAhhos ApNocArE
W a'i asso, .on Wiicil can ony pe e!asseu ~ tne
c",eeoiy VI coiinoh t'iseeoous Apu wii'ch me
wrier pusilNcly knew 70 pe a oaSe ana uhealied
lor picFafleat'oh' considering the iaet that since
the nrst issue Oh the ADVOCATE we have pub
iisned more matter endorsing and iurtherlng The
cause o; education than all the other papers In
Carbon county combined. II the writer OF the
communication doubts this the Inspection OF our
newspaper files is at his option,